Walking doll



Aug; 10, 1954 A. l. RAVICH ET AL WALKING DOLL Filed NOV. 15, 1951 In ve nio z 's,

Jbrqham Ravich and 1 I Irving. JVfZZUvY/(Ofif Patented Aug. 10, 1954 UNITED OFFICE 2,685,759 WALKING om,

Application November 13, 1951, Serial No. 255,906

This invention relates to figure toys, especially to doll-hip-joints and to improvement in a walking doll.

The main object or purpose of this invention is to provide a walking doll with a comparatively simple, low-cost, thoroughly practical, hipjoint or limb-joint combination that includes not only leg-movements that simulate walking of the doll, but also includes movements of the legs into various adjustments forwardly and rearwardly of their normal upright, standing and walking, positions; for instance, to forward position as when sitting, or respectively in forward and rearward positions as when performing a front-rear straddle, or as when one leg is in high kicking position while the other is in standing position.

Another object of this invention is to provide inter-locking devices in the hip-joint, in combination with a helical spring-device that normally secure the legs in their normal walking relation to the dolls body or trunk, and that can be unlocked by easily pulling the thigh- 1 Claim. (Cl. 46150) simulant of either leg laterally from the hipjoint-member, so that the leg (including the thigh-simulant) can then be swung to a forward-upward or rearward-upward position and then pulled by said spring-means or spring-device into the newly adjusted interlocked position.

In the accompanying drawings, only one leg and hip-joint are shown, for the companion (right) hip-joint is counterpart of the left hipjoint here shown and hereinafter described and claimed, as follows: Similar reference charac ters refer to similar parts in the several figures of drawings and in the specification.

The drawings are briefly described as follows:

Fig. l is a front elevational view of a doll-leg connected to a lower-rear part of a doll-torso or trunk by our improvement in mechanical hipjoints; this view also including a screw-threaded rod for operative connection to an undisclosed means for imparting a walking motion to the leg.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of two main joint-units disposed in slightly spaced relation to one another, in axially alined relation and in proper position to be moved axially into interengagement or inter-locked relation with one another, the section being along the axes of these joint-units. I Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken along the line 33 of Fig. 1, with addition of a fragment of the lower-front part of the torso or hollow trunk fitted against the lower-rear portion of the trunk.

Fig. 4 is a view of the plane apertured side of the lower-right element or unit in Fig. 2.

In broad terms, the invention comprises, in combination, a hip-portion l of the front and rear trunk-portions 5 and 6 that are combined and normally united with one another and formed with an annular bearing 8, a nip-jointmember 9 journaled in said annular bearing, and a transmission element or means ill united with and projecting upward from the unit 9 within the hollow trunk 56, and operable to turn the unit 9 slightly in opposite directions in the hearing 8 for effecting stepping movements to the doll-leg or limb H. The unit or member 9 is formed with an axially alined bore or opening ta through which extends a screw-threaded rod that has its lower end secured in a screwthreaded aperture l2a of the element 42. From the aperture lZa, the rod l3 extends through the opening 911 and into the hollow of the trunk 5-45 through a helical compression spring Hi whose inner end is seated against the unit or member 9 and held compressed thereagainst by cooperation of the post l3 and a nut l5 thereon, and such cooperation of elements l3, l4 and i5 normally press the plane side lb, of element 12, against the plane side 9b of the unit or memher a while also keeping studs or detents ll interengaged with apertures or sockets l8 of the element i2. When the parts H are normally interengaged in the upper and lower sockets it, the legs H are thereby retained in the stepping or walking position, because the element l2 of each leg is secured in the hollow upper end of the thigh-simulant Ha; but when either leg is turned to a horizontal position, either forward or rearward, the detents ll engage with the horizontally disposed sockets l8. To effect the turning of the united elements H and l2 to diiferent inter-locked adjustments, the user grasps the respective thigh-simulants and pulls them horizontally or outward until the detents are out from the sockets it, then turns the leg or legs forward or rearward thru a 90 angle, then releases the pull so that the spring l4 pulls the plane surface it against unit or hip-jointmember 9 and interlocks the parts I! with the correlated sockets N3 of the thigh-joint-element l2.

Though brads l9 are shown as the means for securing the element !2 in the hollow thighsimulant l Ea, other securing means may be used to supplement or substitute the fasteners 59. The element It may have its lower end screwed into the screw-hole (as in Fig. 1); or may be 3 united with the hip-joint-member 9 by any appropriate means.

This invention is not limited to any specific I hollow trunk that has a hip-portion provided with an annular bearing, a leg including a hipjoint-member journaled in said annular bearing, a transmission element comprising a rod having a lower end tightly secured within and projecting up from the upper part of said hip-jointmember within said hollow trunk and being operable to oscillate said leg in opposite directions in said bearing for imparting stepping movements to said leg, in combination with an axially alined bore thru said hip-joint-member, an axially disposed rod extending thru and beyond said bore, a helical compression spring having one end seated against said hip-joint-member while a portion of said axially disposed rod extends through said spring, a leg-joint-element united with the outer end of said axially disposed rod, said hip-joint member and leg-jointelement being provided with interengaging spring-pressed elememts thereof to selectively lock said leg in various positions relative to said trunk, and an element adjustably secured on the inner end-portion of said axially disposed rod and cooperative therewith and with said helical spring for keeping said interengaging elements in releasably interengaged relation.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 1,120,331 Parsons Dec. 8, 1914 2,194,460 Heiman Mar. 26, 1940 FOREIGN PATENTS Number Country Date 214,660 Great Britain Aug. 21, 1924 

